HOT-STAR GROUP

[Sometime] members of the UCL Hot-Star Group


l-r: [Orsola], Mike, Stuart, Pac, Adam, ian, Allan, Chris, Richard (N), Raman, [Tim] - Linda & Rich (T) awol
And it's not a perspective effect - Tim really is 50 per cent larger than a normal human being.



Jay Abbott

  • Postgraduate student; working on starbursts

  • jba@star.ucl.ac.uk

    Mike Barlow

  • Professor of Astronomy; interests include IR observations, P Cygni etc.

  • mjb@star.ucl.ac.uk; 020-7679-7160

    Adam Burnley

  • Postgraduate student; working on mass loss from OB stars

  • awxb@star.ucl.ac.uk; 020-7679-3410

    Simon Clark

  • PDRA; working on stellar winds and variability in hot stars and CVs

  • jsc@star.ucl.ac.uk

    Stuart Colley

  • Postgraduate student; working on variability in stellar winds

  • src@star.ucl.ac.uk; 020-7679-3410

    Paul Crowther

  • Royal Society Research Fellow, investigating the evolutionary properties of Wolf-Rayet stars and galaxies

  • pac@star.ucl.ac.uk; 020-7679-7154

    Chris Evans

  • Postgraduate student; working on stellar populations in the SMC

  • cje@star.ucl.ac.uk; 020-7679-3410

    Ian Howarth

  • Professor of Astronomy; interests include UV observations, mass loss, non-radial pulsations, etc.

  • idh@star.ucl.ac.uk; 020-7679-3491

    Richard Norris

  • Postgraduate working on young stellar populations in external galaxies.

  • rpfn@star.ucl.ac.uk; 020-7679-3474

    Raman Prinja

  • Lecturer in Astronomy; interests include UV observations, mass loss, stellar-wind variability, etc.

  • rkp@star.ucl.ac.uk; 020-7679-3475

    Linda Smith

  • Reader in Astronomy; interests include LBV and WR ring nebulae.

  • ljs@star.ucl.ac.uk; 0207-380-7760

    Rich Townsend

  • PDRA working on assorted theoretical topics in hot-star astrophysics.

  • rhdt@star.ucl.ac.uk; 020-7679-3410

    Allan Willis

  • Professor of Astronomy; interests include X-ray and UV time series spectroscopy of Wolf-Rayet stars

  • ajw@star.ucl.ac.uk; 020-7679-3488


    Former Members & Continuing Colleagues

    Martin Clayton

  • Sometime Starlink programmer, now earning Real Money in the Real World.

  • Orsola De Marco

  • Former PDRA studying both massive Wolf-Rayet stars and their low mass counterparts in Planetary Nebulae. Now at the Astrophysics Department of the American Museum of Natural History.

  • orsola@amnh.org;

    Luc Dessart

  • Former postgraduate student.

  • Tim Harries

  • Former fixed-term lecturer, now holding a permanent post at Exeter; studying stellar spectropolarimetry.

  • th@astro.ex.ac.uk

    Kaj Siebert

  • Former postgraduate student; now working for Reuters.

  • kws@star.ucl.ac.uk;

    Keith Smith

  • Honorary Research Fellow; interests include stellar atmospheres, atmospheric chemistry, etc.

  • Keith died 2000 June 3 of Motor Neuron Disease, aged 35




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